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Re: CVS commit: src/etc



Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> writes:

> What is referred to here is a specific ZFS idea and should not be
> confused with any sort of global notion.  Specifically, ZFS, by default
> and in common use, does not use anything like a /etc/fstab or
> /etc/vfstab to specify where the filesets get mounted.  It also does not
> usually use the usual mount command either to mount them, although that
> would work in Solaris if I remember correctly (at least in some cases).
> What happens is that the mount point is specified in the fileset meta
> data and "zfs mount ...." takes care of getting it mounted.  If you
> wanted to use /etc/fstab or /etc/vfstab with ZFS you need to mark the
> mountpoint in the fileset as being legacy, then you could fill in your
> /etc/... files as you wanted.  This, of course, strongly suggests that
> Sun was going to make all of the other filesystems except ZFS second
> class, but Sun fell apart before that really progressed to anything
> final and Oracle never really ran to that conclusion either.  No one is

Somehow I am not shocked that this usage (by Sun) had that lurking.

> at all suggesting that any filesystem become second class in the NetBSD
> realization of ZFS.
>
> So the term legacy when speaking of ZFS is used to refer to a filesystem
> that uses whatever /etc/... files you use and uses the usual mount
> command.

Thanks, and Taylor also sent me a clue privately.    A superceding
comment by me crossed in the mail.

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